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Ansible-core 2.19 Porting Guide 

This section discusses the behavioral changes between ansible-core 2.18 and ansible-core 2.19.

It is intended to assist in updating your playbooks, plugins and other parts of your Ansible infrastructure so they will work with this version of Ansible.

We suggest you read this page along with ansible-core Changelog for 2.19 to understand what updates you may need to make.

This document is part of a collection on porting. The complete list of porting guides can be found at porting guides.

Playbook 

Timeout waiting on privilege escalation (become) is now an unreachable error instead of a task error. Existing playbooks should be changed to replace ignore_errors with ignore_unreachable on tasks where timeout on become should be ignored.

Error

Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt:

Command Line 

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Deprecated 

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Modules 

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Modules removed 

The following modules no longer exist:

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Deprecation notices 

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Noteworthy module changes 

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Plugins 

The ssh connection plugin now supports using SSH_ASKPASS to supply passwords for authentication as an alternative to the sshpass program. The default is to use SSH_ASKPASS instead of sshpass. This is controlled by the password_mechanism configuration for the ssh connection plugin. To switch back to using sshpass make one of the following changes:

To your ansible.cfg file:
```
[ssh_connection]
password_mechanism = sshpass
```
By exporting an environment variable:
```
export ANSIBLE_SSH_PASSWORD_MECHANISM=sshpass
```
By setting the following variable:
```
ansible_ssh_password_mechanism: sshpass
```

Porting custom scripts 

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Networking 

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